this like star citizen or not never played

[BRASK]

wanted to know if this is like it , im enjoying star citizen

[prdtr]

I assume you're trying to ask whether Elite Dangerous is similar to Star Citizen or not. Personally, I think it isn't similar, in terms of game mechanics, appearances, etc. But the whole thing is quite the same, you can do exploration, do mining, trading, bounty hunting, just like Star Citizen. Though the main thing I wanna point out is that ED universe is basically a 1:1 replica of the Milky Way Galaxy, so you have the whole galaxy to explore.

[Kobs]

And you can play VR in this one

[Qurinesk]

Vr only in ships, not in Odyssey dlc

[Bottledbuttfart]

Well they both sell overpriced ships for real money so quite similar.

[BRASK]

thanks for the info

[TempOHs]

Though Elite is missing things, I feel that with what it has is more immersive personally

[TempOHs]

Originally posted by Bottledbuttfart:

Well they both sell overpriced ships for real money so quite similar.

12 bucks isn't even a lot though ppl will buy skins in games where they can only see their hands for 30-50 bucks lol

[0Samuel]

Elite Dangerous is very much a complete game, but depending on what you like about Star Citizen it's hard to say whether you'd be comparing vaporware to the real deal or just apples to oranges.

It also doesn't do a lot of handholding. That can be good in some respects, but it also gives it that "mile wide, inch deep" reputation. Elite Dangerous does have dense content, but people can easily miss huge areas of it and then think that there's not much to the game.

Like megaships. Someone went to a lot of work setting up some really quite sophisticated content there, but just looking at the mission board you'll probably take the massacre mission instead every time, right?

So- for in-ship stuff Elite Dangerous is second to none, both for the 6-axis flight model in general and all the content therein.

For on foot stuff, Elite Dangerous has.. it's there, and there's some other reasons to have Odyssey anyway, but it's not trying to be anything like what Star Citizen is in that regard.

For the 'living, breathing world' marketing speak, it's definitely got more than Star Citizen, and the BGS is quite complex but, again, you have to look for it. It doesn't do what Star Citizen pretends it someday will- for that there's only Eve, but you probably don't want that.

There's two things I would caution you about if you decide to take the plunge. First is that there's a lot of very confusing systems that the default tutorial doesn't really explain- that's because there's a whole training section on the mode select screen. You certainly don't have to do all of it, but you should know that it is there in case you get confused.

Secondly, written info on the internet tends to somewhat ok for this game, especially the dedicated sites, but almost all content on youtube is going to be either wrong or actively harmful; there's a lot of people trying to sell a way to "beat the grind" that is, in fact, the worst possible way to do whatever that thing is and will be neither fun nor faster than doing it properly. It's a nuisance and we get complaints here constantly from people who've been coached to skip whole segments of the game and then think there's no other way to do that thing.

...As an honorable mention, Elite Dangerous comes packaged with a full scale model of the Milky Way, one which routinely predicts the rough existence and location of previously undiscovered stars and exoplanets. This feeds down to the planet generation, so that there are billions (yes with a b) of full scale landable bodies with proper scaling of the horizon and gravity and which uses all the appropriate scientific principles to generate the terrain, geology, and volcanism, including whether that body should or should not, for example, have plate tectonics.

It's overkill, in a lot of ways, but the verisimilitude gives the world generation an enormous amount of weight that other games just do not and cannot have.

[Sam Willet]

Elite Dangerous has 399,999,999,999 more star systems
A complex background simulation (BGS) with thousands upon thousands of factions battling for control in 20,000 inhabited systems
A real time strategy war against aliens taking place across 1000 systems, involving roughly 5000 anti-xeno players.
Remote outposts and settlements that will take you hours or days of in-game travel to reach.
Hundreds of abandoned bases, destroyed megaships, tourist beacons with logs - many of them voice acted.
Deep lore covering centuries of in-game time.
Federal, imperial and alliance superpowers with unique ships
More than a dozen major powers aligned with the above
A vast economy modelling supply and demand.
Completely modular ships - buy a hull and equip it for whatever task you want.
Engineering to specialise your modules, and thus ships.
The potential for thousands and thousands of hours of gameplay across hundreds of missions, highly varied gameplay loops.

Sorry, what was the other game you mentioned about again?

[Oggmeista]

Commenting from a friend who has SC they say it's more visually immersive, but they also said it is disjointed incomplete and bugged, As well the scale is much lower, and arguably the mechanics and physics are also simplified.. Elite's scales is levels of magnitude greater with a true to scale expected size of a real milky Way galaxy with over 400 billion star systems a scale only surpassed by No Man's sky which has a ridiculous get this. 15 Quintilian stars if you believe what people say. Of course NMS is a far limited experience and doesn't have the gfx visual fidelity of SC or ED. All three games have been around for a long time now and it's what is added from now onwards that imho will determine the success of these games as you move forward.

[CommanderEly]

don't even bother. start citizen is basically Burj Khalifa compared to this. And Star Citizen not even released yet.

[magnumaniac]

Originally posted by CommanderEly:

don't even bother. start citizen is basically Burj Khalifa compared to this. And Star Citizen not even released yet.

Interesting comparison, although I'm not sure CIG would enjoy the comparison to something that is known for housing sanctioned money launderers, and had a track record of abusing workers rights while it was under construction.

Still it did only take 6 years to be completed, so it has that going for it.

[DesertFox]

I play both, If you like Star citizen you will like this most likely. There are things they both do better. ED is more of a simulator.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Sam Willet:

Sorry, what was the other game you mentioned about again?

Plans for the future and money?.. I heard they do it very well. Everything else is in Alpha.

At least, this game works now.

[Hootman]

Whenever I think of SC I'm reminded of a comedy movie called "The Pentagon Wars' that depicts the mostly true development fiasco that was the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. In development for 17 years at a cost of 14 Billion Dollars. The new guy put in charge described it as "a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C."

Watching the Army constantly changing the design into something it was never intended to be is a perfect example of an out of control project run by the Military / Government.

After a while it seems the whole purpose of the project was just to exist as a project with no end in sight. Shifting goals and constant revisions.

It was a form of what the military calls "mission creep", and the term "Juggernaut" could definitely be applied. Constantly shifting goalposts, investigations, etc. Anyone who tried to bring the problems to light was shut down or overpowered by the sheer force of the various entities behind the project. It was one of the driving forces behind the Pentagon revamping how it developed weapons systems.

There are a lot of similarities.